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A lot of people are super keen on Android Wear and the LG G Watch, while not the highest end on the fashion stakes is certainly up there with the best of them spec wise. Containing the same hardware as most of the Android Wear watches currently on the market, the LG G Watch is a great bargain when it’s[Read More…]

Siri, Cortana, and to a lesser extent due to its availability on iOS, Google Now – are all virtual assistants to an extent, but limited by availability. Google is apparently backing an open sourced approach to virtual assistants built by the University of Michigan’s Clarity Lab, called Sirius which is taking an open source approach to building the next virtual[Read More…]

If you’ve watched a YouTube video you’ll be intimately familiar with annotations on videos which invite you to check out other videos the creator has made, link to other sites or just remind you to like the video. Google has looked into a way to make annotations like this work better across their platforms and has decided their card interface[Read More…]

Fans of the Xperia Z series phones were a little disappointed in the lack of phone announcement alongside the Xperia Z4 tablet at Mobile World Congress, but that isn’t to say that Sony isn’t working on a new phone. Leaker @onleaks has shared the above photo of what’s claimed to be the first render of the Xperia Z4 this morning.[Read More…]

Fanatical players of Niantic Labs location based game Ingress will be hit with a hard choice later this year, when the company unleashes their second Augmented Reality (AR) game on the world. Niantic Labs has announced that the game called Endgame will launch in a closed beta later this year. The game is described as a prequel to the book:[Read More…]

Sony hasn’t moved quite as fast as other manufacturers in updating their flagship phones, but today they’ve announced that their Android 5.0 update has begun. The update will rollout to their latest flagship line first, beginning with the Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact. The update will begin hitting Xperia Z3/Z3 Compact handsets in the Nordics and Baltics first, before hitting[Read More…]

The original Motorola Moto X will begin receiving Android 5.0 shortly, at least according to one Motorola employee who has confirmed the update is incoming on Google+. After a number of posts circulated with the rumourt that the Lollipop update for the original Moto X was being soak tested, Luciano Carvalho has advised that the rumours are true. He’s answered[Read More…]

Smartphones dominate the way we communicate in this day and age and its not limited adults, children are increasingly adopting smartphones and the age at which they’re beginning to own them is decreasing. Research has fund that 68% of Aussie children aged 12 to 17 now own a smartphone, with the average screen time amongst these young smartphone owners is[Read More…]

Samsung and HTC both announced their 2015 flagships at Mobile World Congress, with HTC announcing their One M9, while Samsung has released their Galaxy S6 as well as their dual curved edge display, the Galaxy S6 Edge. Release dates aren’t known, official pricing isn’t known but we know what they look like, we know the specs. HTC One M9 Samsung[Read More…]

Oppo last year announced two new handsets at their launch in Singapore, announcing the Oppo N3, an update to the N1, and another more design oriented handset, the Oppo R5. While the major focus these days is on the ‘major’ manufacturers who originally signed onto the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), it’s been the newer OEMs from China in the last[Read More…]